Yakus
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Yakus was the petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States, which addressed the constitutionality of wartime price controls and congressional delegation of legislative power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yakus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9618220 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yakus Context triple: [Yakus v. United States, hasPetitioner, Yakus]
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A.
Yabu
Yabu is a small city in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural landscapes, hot springs, and access to mountainous outdoor recreation.
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B.
Yakumo
Yakumo is a residential neighborhood in Tokyo’s Meguro ward known for its quiet streets, schools, and proximity to parks and shopping areas.
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C.
Yokote
Yokote is a city in Akita Prefecture, Japan, known for its heavy snowfall and the annual Yokote Kamakura Snow Festival featuring traditional igloo-like snow huts.
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D.
Kunoy
Kunoy is a small, mountainous island in the Faroe Islands known for its dramatic cliffs, sparse population, and traditional fishing villages.
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E.
Oyugis
Oyugis is a town in western Kenya that serves as a key commercial and administrative center in the former Rachuonyo District of Homa Bay County.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yakus Target entity description: Yakus was the petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States, which addressed the constitutionality of wartime price controls and congressional delegation of legislative power.
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A.
Yabu
Yabu is a small city in northern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known for its rural landscapes, hot springs, and access to mountainous outdoor recreation.
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B.
Yakumo
Yakumo is a residential neighborhood in Tokyo’s Meguro ward known for its quiet streets, schools, and proximity to parks and shopping areas.
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C.
Yokote
Yokote is a city in Akita Prefecture, Japan, known for its heavy snowfall and the annual Yokote Kamakura Snow Festival featuring traditional igloo-like snow huts.
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D.
Kunoy
Kunoy is a small, mountainous island in the Faroe Islands known for its dramatic cliffs, sparse population, and traditional fishing villages.
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E.
Oyugis
Oyugis is a town in western Kenya that serves as a key commercial and administrative center in the former Rachuonyo District of Homa Bay County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalIssue |
constitutionality of congressional delegation of legislative power
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constitutionality of wartime price controls ⓘ |
| associatedWithStatute | Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| caseDecidedBy | Supreme Court of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
litigation over congressional delegation of legislative power
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litigation over wartime price controls ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOfCase | United States federal law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalCaseOutcomeFor | conviction upheld by U.S. Supreme Court in Yakus v. United States ⓘ |
| notableFor | being petitioner in Yakus v. United States ⓘ |
| partyTo | Yakus v. United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInCase | petitioner ⓘ |
| roleIn | Yakus v. United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfCase | World War II era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Yakus Description of subject: Yakus was the petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States, which addressed the constitutionality of wartime price controls and congressional delegation of legislative power.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Yakus v. United States